position of the narration, that the slaughter of the witnesses and their resurrection, together with the earthquake and the fall of the Tenth part of the City, were to be the terminating events under this trumpet. Now a careful examination of the details of the seventh trumpet, which are given in REVELATION, from the fifteenth verse of the eleventh to the end of the nineteenth chapters, will, I think show us the extreme probability that the sixth trumpet ceased to sound upon the rise of the Napoleon dynasty. If so, I feel no hesitation whatever in asserting the opinion that the Two WITNESSES, are none other than THE PROPHETS AND THE APOSTLES GENERALLY; or in other words, THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES; for it is certain that these inspired witnesses of God did prophesy, as it were, clothed in sackcloth, for twelve hundred and sixty years; namely from 533 A.D. (when the EDICT OF JUSTINIAN planted the nucleus of that persecuting power of the Papacy which it swayed with such effect in after years) till the REIGN OF TERROR, 1793, when so far as their existence in the Roman Empire was concerned, they were slain; and thus for three and a half years (the time predicted) viz., from the 31st of May, 1793 (when, by the success of the Jacobin Conspirators, the destruction of the civil establishment of religion in France was completed, the "Worship of Reason" commenced, the Scriptures were declared to be a fable, death was pronounced an everlasting sleep, the Sabbath was abolished, and the reckoning of time altered), to the beginning of the year, 1797, (when a

change took place by the fact of new men obtaining power in the great council of the Commonwealth.)

During this predicted period, it was as the prophecy declared it should be: (verse 10). Joy was exhibited amongst the learned and scientific people of all Europe. They wrote one to another, offering congratulations on the introduction of a new era. Our own beloved country was infected also, and Republicanism and infidelity committed ravages on every side.

"The

But now for a moment we must glance again at Earth. "THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN" has appeared in Heaven, in the sight of the wicked world. sign" (to onμetov), some evidence, some clear intimation, which men cannot gainsay. It appears; and the tribes of the earth mourn.* The heaven departs "as a scroll when it is rolled together:" and reveals the wondrous truth. THE DESPISED JESUS AND HIS ONCE PERSECUTED people are dESCENDING. "Every mountain and island are moved out of their places. And the Kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and say to the mountains and rocks, fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of His wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand." But he descends. "This same Jesus" who was seen to go into heaven, so descends in like manner as He was seen to go into heaven.‡

*Matt. xxiv. 30.

† Rev. vi. 14-17.

Acts. i. 2.

And, as ZECHARIAH tells us, He stands upon the Mount of Olives, and the mountain cleaves in the midst thereof towards the east and towards the west: and half of the mountain removes towards the north, and half of it towards the south.*

Thus indeed it shall be. Standing on that very Mount of Olives-where in time gone by He rode meekly on an Ass's Colt,-THE KING OF KINGS SHALL MANIFEST HIMSELF. We need not add any words to make this clearer or more positive than it is made by Holy Scripture.

Zech. xiv. 4.

CHAPTER V.

THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS.

"In righteousness He doth judge and make war.”—REV. xix. 11. RELIGIOUS people often speak of "THE LAST DAY,"or-"THE DAY OF THE LORD," or " "THE DAY OF JUDGMENT," as if it were to be a day of ordinary duration, to come suddenly upon the world: A certain day of twelve or four and twenty hours, appointed by the Father, in which a complete destruction of all sublunary, if not heavenly, things, is to take place; and the righteous and the wicked, being raised and judged, rewards and punishments of everlasting nature are to be awarded them.*

The present chapter will be occupied with the consideration of those great events which will peculiarly mark the MORNING of this "Last Day." I have included these events, when mentioning "the general order" of the subjects which would occupy these chapters, under the title of "THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS."+

The terms in which the PROPHETS speak of this great judgment is exceedingly impressive. . . . . Their language points to it as one of the greatest among great events. The world is represented to be full of * Chapter I., page 20, 21.

† See Chapter I., page 20.

wickedness; the hand of cruelty uplifted high; the thoughts of all men far from Him in whose hand is their life, their breath, and all things. But suddenly a stop is put upon their rashness. The Lord descends. He comes with all His Saints. He comes in righteousness to judge and make war: He comes prepared to avenge the blood of all His servants who have fallen by the hand of wickedness: He comes in readiness to vindicate His honor in the sight of the ungodly, and to take possession of the throne which appertains to Him as "KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS."

But let us observe the testimony which these prophets offer.

ISAIAH tells us-in his second chapter, that "It shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Here we have certainly a very glorious time foretold: a time yet future, such as has not hitherto appeared. Other quotations from the prophet Isaiah need not be given, as his whole prophecy is full of similar testi

monies.

JOEL speaks very plainly on the subject. In the third chapter, to which reference was made in the last chapter with regard to the gathering of all na